A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The great sushi craze of 1905.
- 5 panoramic photos of Hiroshima.
- The time Paris had a baby lottery.
- Plague remedies from the garden.
- Cat shows of the nineteenth century.
- Lesbian love trysts of suffragette leaders?
- What did early modern perfume smell like?
- The myth of the black Confederate soldier.
- When those crazy Victorians contracted fern fever.
- Meet Beatrice White, the fly swat champion of 1912.
- The Young Lords find a museum home for radical roots.
- The new Jack the Ripper museum is a complete disaster.
- A new app tells the painful stories of slave life at Monticello.
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Thanks so much for including my article “The Cat Show at the Crystal Palace” on your list!